This thesis analyses the cultural, social and political discourse in a range of Irish periodicals published during 1912. The Third Home Rule Bill was introduced to Parliament in 1912, and was intended to grant Ireland a ...

Microlens-array-based light-field cameras (also known as plenoptic cameras), which are capable of recording both angular and spatial information of light, are already commercially available as consumer commodities. Due to ...

Introduction/Aim
Ischemia Reperfusion injury is a poorly understood entity with wide-ranging clinical
implications touching on most fields of clinical medicine. Using skin flap and hind limb
models of injury in the mouse ...

Background: The importance of understanding the cultural, social, economic, political and historical contexts when working in post conflict fragile states is well documented. Many health and development projects in post ...

In this research, I examine the relationship between ritual, memory, and performance and contemporary theatrical creation methods, specifically with reference to the works of Enda Walsh. I use Walsh's plays as a case study ...

Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) is a zoonotic pathogen of major public health importance and is the leading cause of gastroenteritis woldwide. Poultry is regarded as one of the most important reservoirs for Campylobacter ...

Spatial crowdsourcing has emerged as a new paradigm for solving difficult problems in the physical world. It engages a large number of human workers in scenarios such as crisis management and smart cities. The utility of ...

This doctoral thesis examines how French presidential favourites have addressed the nation and Europe in their bids for the presidency from 1988 to 2007. The study demonstrates the malleability of de Gaulle's influence on ...

Positive youth development (PYD) refers to a focus on the developmental characteristics that lead to positive outcomes and behaviours among young people (Benson, 2003). The Five Cs Model of PYD (Lerner et al., 2005) is the ...

The core problem addressed by this thesis is to provide practical tools for
automatic sorting and cataloging of a typical consumer collection of digital images. The thesis presents a complete system solution, comprising ...

Advances are presented in the modeling of facial sub-regions, in the use of enhanced whole face-models, and based on these sub-region models, in the determination of facial expressions. Models are derived using techniques ...

The core problem addressed in the current thesis is to provide a novel test bed
for depth map generation and stereo image-based algorithms. The test bed comprises
of elements such as (i) the choice and calibration of ...

People-tagging involves the process of adding non-hierarchical metadata to users of a system. Such metadata facilitates organising contacts
and building user profiles in a collaborative fashion. People-tag-based user ...

The science of genetic testing and related technology is rapidly advancing. Among other things, genetic testing technology may offer the prospect of being able to detect the onset of future disabilities. It also offers ...

Asylum seekers arriving in Ireland are accommodated under a system known as Direct Provision and Dispersal. Concerns have been raised since its inception in 2000 by NGOs, academics, health professionals and the international ...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have been rising for the past 200 years, and started increasing at a faster rate during the last 60 years. The world's oceans act as a reservoir for large amounts of CO_2. How they ...

In this thesis, we develop practical algorithms for irreducibility and primitivity testing of finite nilpotent linear groups defined over various fields of characteristic zero, including number fields and rational function ...

Local development approaches purport to offer a more effective means of addressing development issues in areas experiencing specific socio-economic challenges. By facilitating local involvement in the identification of the ...